Councillor Davie explained: “What is crucial, for me, is finding ways to make sure people access the benefits they are fully entitled to – more than £100 million is not claimed in Lincolnshire each year.

“This would go some way towards helping people stay warm and hopefully not worry so much, and also means they can access government schemes designed to tackle fuel poverty.

“Also the standard of private sector housing needs to be improved.

“Older properties do have more solid walls, which are harder and more costly to insulate, but this does need to happen.

“More than 14,000 households here benefited from the excellent HELP scheme, a great example of different organisations working together to better insulate homes, so that energy consumption falls along with people’s energy bills.”